McCain’s in the media again.  Hot Air has a couple of videos of him being himself, and as a proper maverick supporter, there’s no way I’ll ever post them here.  Normally I would start the jokes about the whole “supporting his fellow Democrat” thing, but it’s time to put the funny aside for a moment.

2010 is coming.  We get the chance to stop simply protesting and actually do something about our government again.  There’s just one catch.  People like McCain, and specifically McCain, will insure that the Republicans are not any sort of an opposition party if they remain.

I have no problem with the fact he lost in 2008, even given all of what we’ve been through with Obama.  We’re fighting something we were going to fight anyway, and after four years of McCain, we would have been in a worse position to do so.  There would be no Tea Party movement, which we’ll also need to protest idiocy in a future Republican controlled government, if he had won.  And no, he would not have offered any significant resistance to the Democrat agenda.  He would be “reaching across the aisle” nonstop, and conservatives would be taking the fall for his behavior, just as we did under Bush.

Now, he’s up for re-election in the Senate in 2010, and Arizona has not one chance but two to be rid of him.  They could very well blow them both.  He has a lot in his background to make him sympathetic, foremost among them being his POW ordeal.  Some might look at him and say he’s just a bit misguided but otherwise honorable, the “deeply flawed servant of the people” he occasionally pretends to be.  Some believe he deserves our support and a hell of a lot better than he gets on a blog like mine.

As for me, I’m going to call it like I see it:  McCain has got to go.  There is no real opposition to the Democrats in the Republican party so long as he continues to interfere.

Think of him what you will, but you have to make a choice.  McCain has undermined the Republicans in the past to the point they can’t oppose anything.  He’s given the Democrats the cover of bipartisanship in exchange for having his name first on one of their bills.  He’s made the Senate “Gangs of Undermining” fashionable.  He gleefully poked you in the eye for his puff press and his Presidential ambitions, and if re-elected, he will do so again.

This means a Republican victory in 2010 is worthless so long as he’s in the Senate.  However conflicted you may be about him (if you are), one fact remains.  He can either retain his Senate seat or lose it.  It’s all strictly binary.  You already know what he’ll do with it once he wins it, his current pretense to conservatism notwithstanding.

Six more years of “My friends…” is waiting.  Time for you to decide which side of his re-election aspirations you’re on, and get to work.  Right now.